“I'm not going to say the guy is a bad person,” Patterson said. “If he made a mistake, he made a mistake.”

The mistake Tuaua allegedly made took place on Friday, September 4, just one day after the Horned Frogs' season opener against the Minnesota Golden Gophers. According to the police report, three students were beaten outside a house party after they were hit by a beer can and confronted another group — one that included Tuaua and Petties-Wilson — about why a can had been thrown. According to the same police statement, the assault finally stopped when one of the suspects yelled, “Get the beer!” That's when Tuaua — identified as an “Asian-pacific male with big hair” — allegedly picked up the case of beer that belonged to the victims and ran off through an alley.

Tuaua and Petties-Wilson were suspended from the TCU football team for unspecified reasons on Monday, September 7. Seems we now know those reasons.